The left is making a lot of popcorn watching this fight.
President Bush will not withdraw the nomination. But we need some real evidence that Miers is an originalist or she will have to be defeated.
If she doesn't withdraw, she's one tough lady.
Appoint Janice Rogers Brown and put Harriet Miers in her spot on the DC Court of Appeals. Brown has already been questioned extensively by the Senate and Miers has been virtually approved by Harry Reid & Co., making her a shoo-in for the lower court.
I see you're still trying to fire up 'ol sparky' and send Miers to the "chair".
If the prez wants her and believes in her along the with likes of her own pastor, Dr. Dobson, Jay Sekulow and others, Miers sounds good to me. In the last decades, judicial restraint is really required.
As long as Republicans "keep cannibalizing one another," he said, "Democrats can sit back and watch it happen and then pick among the rubble afterward."Boy are they going to be surprised to learn that all parts of the rubble are against THEM. LOL
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The President really needs to cut his losses now or there is going to be long-term damage to the party.
I've said it since day one... I think Miers is a sacraficial lamb for a larger Rope A Dope move by the White House...
Miers submitted.. cannot get past republicans...so Bush must "tail between legs" nominate a proven conservative.... Dems will attempt to rail and scream that the person is too conservative... and Bush can just go "Awe shucks, we already tried a more moderate Candidate, and the Republican's wouldn't let it... So I had to go more conservative, the people demanded it".... And the Dems ranting is basically nullified.
I may be writing too much into it, but I just don't see this as anything but...
Bush won't withdraw the nomination, and if I read her correctly, neither will Miers. He is loyal to his personal friends, if not his supporters, and she is exceedingly stubborn and determined.
She will pretty certainly be confirmed unless something really bad comes out in the hearings, which I really don't expect. She is too much of a professional, too skilled at getting along with people, for that to be at all likely.
It's a sad day and a darn shame that W would have conservatives fighting among themselves because of this idiotic pick. Im only afraid that if Harriet "steps aside" W will stick it to his right and punish us for not "trusting him" with someone worse. What a waste of my last 20 yrs of support!!
Bush has finally split the conservatives from the Republican party. Just as well. It needed doing.